GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| peregrination | to travel especially on foot : walk |
| invalidate | to make invalid |
| seethe | to suffer violent internal excitement |
| acoustics | a science that deals with the production, control, transmission, reception, and effects of sound |
| succor | relief |
| ecclesiastic | ecclesiastical |
| unerringly | committing no error : faultless |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
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